[I visited the British School Benghazi and met with the headmistress who has just left. I spent 3 weeks in Benghazi and loved every minute. If you can cope with the phone cutting, limited Internet access (though there are Internet cafes) very friendly people and HOT weather you'll love it! The school is attended by mainly Libyan children but all teaching is in English. The facilities are a bit limited but I will put my children in school there. Everybody locally considers it to be an excellent but expensive school. If you can't cope with an Islamic lifestyle however, I would forget going there. Libyan people were kind, warm and very welcoming. I can't wait to go back. They have just set up a website so bear with them, www.bsb-ben.com
WIll you be teaching there?

Yes, I will be teaching there! I was hired by Marilyn a few months ago. I will teaching grade 2. What grades are your children in? What will you be doing in Libya?
Could you elaborate on the phone cutting? DAys at a time or a few minutes here and there?
I am a morning person and I don't drink, so I don't expect any difficulties in adapting to the culture.
Thanks for the info....any other recommendations would be appreciated

Hi. Just to say that the phone system is NOT as well established as other countries and phone cutting can often happen (no particular day or time though EID is usually the worst when everyone wants to make a call to/from Libya)

There isn't really much to do in the way of entertainment. THere is no foreign cinema/theatre or anything like that. There is local Arabic theatre. Social life for me and most local women consists of visiting other women/families, drinking lots of tea and coffee and eating lots of cake!! I warn you! However, if you are a man you will probably find it is a different world. No free mixing of the sexes with locals at all. I don't know what the other teachers do there but I think they have their own social network and arrange dinners/theatre in the school etc.
Hope to meet you there.
Best wishes